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Ain't That A Shame: Fats Domino Gone At 89
Another of the true original music pioneers has gone to Rock And Roll Heaven.
Fats Domino, who at one point was outsold only by Elvis, has died. He was 89.
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Rolling Stone: Fats Domino, Rock and Roll Pioneer, Dead at 89
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A buddy of mine who lives in Nashville tells me this...
On Wednesday when the story broke the Associated Press entertainment section ran a headline noting the death of Fats but accompanied by a picture of Chubby Checker...
My buddy had the following take on the mistake by A.P...."probably some kid with a journalism degree who has no clue who EITHER man is..."
Safe to say that is pretty obvious...
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That's not the first time the AP has made a mistake like that. I can't quite recall the exact circumstances, but a few years ago, the news agency ran some sort of online story about a Walt Disney executive or something like that. Except the picture they used of him ended up being Dennis Rader - better known as the gruesome serial murderer called "The BTK Killer."
The juxtaposition was hilarious and as terrible as Rader's crimes were, I couldn't help but laugh. I'm betting it didn't take them long to fix it. But you know the Internet - once it's out there, it never really goes away.
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